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Re: Simple script fools me?

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William Unruh wrote:
> On 2016-09-29, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>>
>> William Unruh wrote:
>>> On 2016-09-29, dog@gmail.com <dog@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Simple script fools me?
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>> echo -n " find files here containing PHRASE: "
>>>> echo $1
>>>>     find . -type f | \
>>>>     grep -v pdf  | \
>>>>     grep -v wav  | \
>>>>     grep -v mp3  | \
>>>>     xargs  grep -l "$1" | grep -v grep
>>>> exit.
>>>
>>> Uh, why not just
>>> grep -r -l "$1" .
>>> instead of all those grep phrases? 
>>> YOu could then filter out all those files you do not want.
>>>
>>> grep -r -l "$1" 2>/dev/null |egrep -v 'pdf$|wav$|mp3$'
>>
>> or, 
>> find . -type f -name "$1" (or *$1*) | egrep -v 'pdf|wav|mp3'
>
> That will throw away files called tidalwave.txt which the user might
> want to actually save-- you want the pdf, wav, mp3 to be at the end of
> the filename I assume.
> Also, in his script,  $1 was  in  the content of the file not the name
> of the file.


*sigh* been a long day, and it's barely even half over ... 

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Simple script fools me? dog@gmail.com - 2016-09-29 11:57 +0000
  Re: Simple script fools me? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-29 14:04 +0000
    Re: Simple script fools me? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 14:18 +0000
      Re: Simple script fools me? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-29 15:45 +0000
        Re: Simple script fools me? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 18:16 +0000
  Re: Simple script fools me? Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2016-10-04 17:50 +0000

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